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MIDDLEBURY  COLLEGE 
BULLETIN 

Vol.  XIV.  September,  1919  No.  1 


A Statement  of  Openings  for  College  Men,  which 
may  help  you  to  decide. 


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Shall  I Go  To  College  ? 


The  War  has  put  college  education  to  a 
severe  test  and  the  results  have  been  clear 
and  convincing.  In  every  department  of 
the  service  at  home  and  abroad  the  -college  trained  man  has  forged 
ahead.  This  was  not  due  to  any  favoritism,  for  in  the  stress  of  war 
tasks  are  assigned  to  those  who  can  accomplish  them  best.  In  Eng- 
land, France  and  America  the  story  has  been  the  same;  the  college 
trained  man  has  surely  and  rapidly  won  advancement.  Thousands 
of  men  returning  from  service  bring  with  them  new  and  profound 
respect  for  college  education. 

This  superiority  of  the  college  trained  man  in  so  wide  a range 
of  emergencies  as  the  war  thrust  upon  society  has  demonstrated 
what  many  young  men  have  been  inclined  to  doubt, — that  collegiate 
training  furnishes  the  best  preparation  that  can  be  found  for  lead- 
ership and  constructive  thinking  in  any  career  or  vocation.  Leaders 
are  developed  by  education.  That  has  been  proved  in  every  position 
of  responsibility  from  Flanders  fields  to  the  remotest  enterprise  that 
had  any  connection  with  the  war. 


THE  TEST  OF 
THE  COLLEGE 


GREAT  NEED 
IS  TO  COME 


We  have  gone  far  enough  in  the  period  of 
reconstruction  to  see  that  it  will  be  the  most 
trying  age  that  modem  men  have  ever 
faced.  The  tasks  are  enormous  and  stupendously  difficult.  The 
strongest  and  ablest  men  are  staggering  under  the  problems  that 
confront  us.  In  the  days  ahead  every  man  will  be  a slacker  who 
does  not  develop  his  powers  to  the  utmost.  The  world  needs  men 
who  can  think,  men  who  can  see,  men  who  can  do  things. 

mu  x x iuf  A xrc  The  College  can  build  such  men.  It 

iuir  r-rvr  t vr'v  has  in  * e Past  and  [t  win  in  the  future- 
THE  COLLEGE  Why  should  it  not?  Xhe  material  it  works 

with  are  the  selected  products  of  the  public  and  private  schools  of 

America.  The  unpromising  have  been  sifted  out  by  the  high  school 


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course  and  by  the  college  entrance  requirements.  The  unambitious 
will  not  find  the  courage  to  make  the  sacrifices  necessary  to  a four 
year  college  course.  Those  who  enter,  eager  to  make  the  most  of 
themselves,  their  primary  ability  proved,  are  submitted  to  the  train- 
ing of  experts,  men  who  have  given  their  lives  to  a particular  de- 
partment of  knowledge.  Libraries  and  laboratories  are  provided 
at  great  cost.  A curriculum  is  arranged  on  the  basis  of  the  com- 
bined experience  of  the  trained  minds  of  many  centuries.  In 
social  organizations,  in  athletic  contests,  in  the  common  life  of  col- 
lege halls,  students  exercise  a wonderfully  helpful  influence  upon 
each  other,  so  that  many  old  graduates  testify  that  “college  life” 
is  the  best  part  of  college.  There  is  nothing  like  it  in  all  the  world. 
Did  you  ever  hear  college  men  sing? 

WHAT  DOES  It  is  a fair  question.  And  it  has  a more 

COLLEGE  definite  and  specific  answer  than  many 

LEAD  TO  ? realize.  The  college  leads  to  so  many 
things  that  its  purpose  may  seem  vague  and  indefinite.  But  such 
is  not  the  case.  Here  are  a few  of  the  choices  to  which  a college 
course  is  the  best  possible  approach. 

Business.  More  and  more  college  graduates  are  going  into 
business, — banking,  manufacturing,  export  trade,  commercial  pur- 
suits of  many  kinds.  The  possibilities  of  large  rewards  are  very 
attractive.  Every  year  the  college  has  requests  from  large  corpor- 
ations for  men  it  can  thoroughly  recommend  on  the  ground  of 
character  and  ability.  Some  business  enterprises  have  filed  perma- 
nent requests  for  suggestions  of  promising  men.  Technical  train- 
ing is  not  necessary,  but  a sound  and  thorough  college  course,  with 
emphasis  on  economics,  political  science,  mathematics,  psychology, 
and  Spanish.  The  college  through  its  advisers  is  prepared  to  rec- 
ommend such  a course  and  men  of  the  right  character  will  be  watch- 
ed for. 

The  Ministry.  The  American  people  are  sorely  in  need  of 
spiritual  leadership  of  high  order.  Good  ministers  are  scarce  and 
are  becoming  scarcer.  Prominent  churches  have  recently  been  im- 
porting ministers  from  abroad,  being  unable  to  find  men  of  the 
right  calibre  in  the  United  States.  A Vermont  denomination  is  now 
advertising  for  five  men  for  single  church  communities,  each  offer- 


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ing  a field  for  constructive  ability  of  high  order.  Positions  of 
strategic  importance  in  foreign  countries  are  open  to  men  of  enter- 
prise. Pursued  in  a high  spirit  of  devotion  the  ministry  is  the 
noblest  of  callings  and  Middlebury  College  is  proud  of  the  propor- 
tion of  her  graduates  who  have  given  their  lives  to  spiritual  leader- 
ship. For  students  intending  the  ministry  a special  course  of  study 
will  be  mapped  out. 

Chemistry.  One  of  the  most  attractive  openings,  calling  for 
many  more  trained  men  than  are  yet  in  sight,  is  in  manufacturing 
industry  based  on  chemistry.  The  field  is  not  new,  but  there  has 
been  a new  expansion  of  it  of  large  proportions.  The  keen  inter- 
est in  chemistry  in  Middlebury  College  has  led  to  the  erection  of  a 
large  new  laboratory  building.  Either  as  a candidate  for  the  de- 
gree of  Bachelor  of  Arts  or  Bachelor  of  Science  it  is  possible  to  take 
sufficient  chemistry  to  assure  the  competent  graduate  of  a good 
position. 

Teaching.  Do  you  know  that  there  are  educational  positions 
paying  $10,000  a year?  That  salaries  of  $5,000  are  not  un- 
common? It  is  an  altruistic  calling,  but  if  it  appeals  to  you  as 
the  life  work  you  would  most  like  to  follow,  you  have  a right  to 
aim  at  the  highest  rewards.  They  will  come,  not  to  those  who  look 
upon  teaching  as  a make-shift,  but  to  those  who  take  scientific 
training  for  the  profession.  Middlebury  College  has  a Department 
of  Education,  established  and  sustained  by  the  State  of  Vermont, 
and  the  student  who  anticipates  educational  work  is  guided  care- 
fully in  a course  of  study  that  will  lead  to  a certificate  in  any  State. 

Foreign  Trade.  Through  many  American  corporations  new 
opportunities  are  opening  to  young  men  in  foreign  commerce.  It 
is  the  new  frontier  in  American  life.  The  South  American  field  is 
particularly  inviting  and  is  destined  to  become  more  so.  There  is 
nothing  to  prevent  any  capable  young  man  from  making  a worthy 
place  for  himself  in  the  new  expansion  of  America.  He  should 
give  special  attention  to  modem  history,  economics,  political 
science,  and  especially  Spanish. 

Medicine.  The  United  States  is  experiencing  a shortage  of 
competent  physicians.  In  every  State  towns  are  calling  for  doctors 
and  cannot  get  them.  The  related  new  profession  of  Sanitary 
Science  is  also  a most  inviting  field.  The  American  Miedical 
Association  requires  two  years  of  college  for  admission  to  first  class 
Medical  Colleges,  the  studies  to  include  chemistry,  physics,  biol- 


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ogy,  and  a modern  language.  The  Middlebury  curriculum  allows 
such  a course  in  Freshman  and  Sophomore  years,  but  the  student 
who  spends  four  years  in  college  and  allows  more  time  for  human- 
istic studies,  will  be  amply  repaid. 

Law.  Many  young  men  conceive  a wrong  idea  of  the  law 
from  the  criminal  cases  and  pettyfogging  with  which  he  sees  law- 
yers’ names  frequently  associated  in  the  newspapers.  Rightly  con- 
ceived and  practiced  the  law  is  one  of  the  noblest  of  professions,  the 
establishment  of  justice  in  human  relations.  There  is  always  an 
opening  for  an  able  man  in  the  law.  While  the  intending  lawyer 
will  find  use  for  accurate  knowledge  and  sound  training  in  any 
field,  he  should  specialize  in  political  science,  economics,  history, 
and  philosophy. 

Forestry.  For  a limited  number  of  men  there  are  good  open- 
ings in  forestry,  especially  in  connection  with  the  great  government 
Forest  Reserves  in  the  Far  West.  Middlebury  College  owns  25,000 
acres  of  forest  land  in  the  magnificent  Green  Mountains  within 
clear  sight  and  easy  reach  of  its  campus  and  employs  a Master  of 
Forestry,  who  offers  a course  in  Forest  Management.  Technical 
Forestry  training  should  be  reserved  for  the  graduate  school,  but 
a beginning  may  be  made  in  college.  Students  intending  forestry 
should  take  drawing  and  surveying,  biology,  mathematics,  physics, 
and  economics. 


Engineering.  It  is  not  necessary  to  point  out  the  great  at- 
tractiveness of  engineering,  whether  civil,  mechanical,  or  electrical, 
nor  the  great  need  of  thoroughly  educated  engineers  in  our  new  in- 
dustrial era.  But  a student  who  enters  a liberal  arts  college  does 
not  shut  himself  out  from  consideration  of  engineering:  rather  is 
he  entering  upon  what  many  consider  the  very  best  possible  course 
of  training  for  the  profession — the  combination  of  a liberal  college 
course,  not  abbreviated,  with  two  years  graduate  work  in  a techni- 
cal institution.  The  subjects  fundamental  to  engineering  are  taught 
at  Middlebury  in  the  departments  of  drawing  and  surveying,  mathe- 
matics, and  physics,  and  the  subjects  are  accepted  for  credit  in  the 
technical  institutions  of  highest  grade. 


The  foregoing  paragraphs  have  been 
written  to  show  that  students  with  a defi- 
nite vocational  purpose  will  find  what  they 
are  seeking  in  college,  and  also  to  stimulate  ambition  in  view  of  the 


the  BROADER 
PURPOSE 


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many  urgent  needs  and  attractive  openings.  But  how  about  the 
student  who  does  not  know  what  he  would  like  to  do? 

College  is  the  best  place  to  find  yourself.  It  will  broaden  your 
point  of  view,  open  to  you  knowledge  of  many  fields,  and  furnish 
you  the  best  possible  environment  in  which  to  come  to  your  own 
decision.  Many  a man  has  had  his  eyes  opened  in  college  to  some 
work  for  which  he  had  talents  of  high  order,  but  of  which  he  had 
not  the  dimmest  inkling  until  in  some  college  classroom  or  labora- 
tory the  knowledge  of  the  one  calling  in  all  the  world  for  him  was 
revealed. 

There  is  much  in  college  for  the  men  with  definite  vocational 
purpose,  but  the  great  benefit  of  the  college  is  to  give  a man, 
whether  he  knows  his  profession  or  has  still  to  decide  upon  it,  that 
solid  foundation  of  character  and  knowledge  upon  which  he  may 
build  in  after  life.  Four  years  are  not  too  long  for  this  foundation 
of  work,  and  many  thousands  of  American  men  will  testify  that 
they  are  the  best  four  years  of  life. 

YOUR  With  the  thousands  returning  to  college 

ANSWER  from  the  army  and  navy,  this  year  will  see 
the  largest  attendance  the  American  colleges  have  ever  had.  A 
spirit  of  serious  purpose  and  earnest  ambition  is  bound  to  prevail. 
Decide  to  enroll  among  the  number  and  to  be  one  of  those  to  do  their 
full  duty  by  their  country  and  themselves  by  preparing  for  the 
largest  possible  service.  There  are  many  good  colleges,  but  Middle- 
bury  College  has  doubled  its  attendance,  trebled  its  buildings,  and 
quadrupled  its  endowments  in  ten  years.  It  is  one  of  the  good  col- 
leges as  yet  undiscovered  by  the  crowd.  If  you  are  obliged  to 
economize,  so  much  the  better:  we  can  offer  you  special  facilities. 
But  the  time  is  short.  Send  your  name,  address,  school  from  which 
you  graduated,  and  year  of  graduation,  and  full  information  and 
instruction  as  to  further  procedure  will  be  sent  you  by  return  mail. 

Address — Dean  Edgar  J.  Wiley, 

Middlebury,  Vermont. 


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